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TYP. DUN-NE. PICTURE RAIL.

Patented June 10, 1890.

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(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS P. DUNNE, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE-RAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,788, dated June 10,1890.

Serial No. 328,629. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. DUNNE, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Picture- Rails, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of myinvention is to provide a picture-rail on which theordinary hooks can be applied, but which also has additional hooks, thusdispensing with the ordinary hooks, which are frequently of such size asnot to fit on the rail, and thereby cause great inconvenience.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts anddetails, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally be pointedout in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a combined perspective viewand cross-section of my improved picture-frame. Fig. 2 is across-section of a modified construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The rail A is provided with the usual top bead A for receiving thepicture-hooks.

A series of wire hooks H are secured on the rail in the followingmanner: Said hooks are made of a single piece of wire bent at the top toform prongs D, which are driven into the top rear shoulder of the rail,and at the lower end said wire is bent to form the hook, which hooks arearranged about four inches apart and project below the bottom edge ofthe rail.

The advantage of myimproved picture-rail is that the hooks are at alltimes permanently secured to the rail in a reliable manner and cannotaccidentally be thrown on? while removing a picture. They are strong anddurable and do not in any way mar the appearance of the rail. They restsnugly against the Wall, thereby causing the picture or mirror to hangwell.

As shown in Fig. 2, the hooks can be passed through apertures in therail.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The combination, with a wooden picture rail having arounded top edge adapted to receive and hold removable picture-hooks,and also provided with apertures for receiving permanent hooks of wire,of wire hooks passed through said apertures and permanently held in thesame and engaging the top of said rail, the lower parts of said wiresforming hooks at the bottom part and front of the rail, substantially asset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOS. P. DUNNE.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, MARTIN PETRY.

